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It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till read more
It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.
No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.
He who has never hoped can never despair.
He who has never hoped can never despair.
. . . then black despair
The shadow of a starless night, was thrown
Over the world read more
. . . then black despair
The shadow of a starless night, was thrown
Over the world in which I moved alone.
Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire read more
Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head.
When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.
When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.
In all things it is better to hope than to despair
In all things it is better to hope than to despair
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when read more
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.